gris-gris

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An African, or Afro-American, charm or talisman.
    — A horn, or rude image, is sometimes made use of as a means of preserving the medicines of defense, and is worn as an amulet. These images, horns, or other articles, called greegrees, or jeujeus, are not held sacred for a moment after the medicine is found to have lost its power […].

词形变化

gris-gris plural greegree alternative gri-gri alternative grigri alternative grisgris alternative

词源

Unknown. Compare juju (“a fetish or charm”); compare also Mande gerregery or Mandingo gregory, an amulet or curse-object.
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